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Film review: John Lewis – Good Trouble

“I feel lucky and blessed that I’m serving in the Congress… But there is a force that is trying to take us back to another time and another dark period,” warns congressman John

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Donald Trump not 'the right President' to handle current situation in the US, says African American soccer star

(CNN) U.S. Men's National Team midfielder Weston McKennie says he doesn't think President Donald Trump is "... the right president for this time" to address what has unfolded in the wake George

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Source: CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Appeals Court: Trump Wrongly Diverted $2.5B for Border Wall

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against the Trump administration in its transfer of $2.5 billion from military construction projects to build sections of the U.S. border wall with Mexico, ruling it illegally sidestepped Congress, which gets to decide how to use the

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House approves bill that would make DC the 51st state

(Photo by Eric BARADAT / AFP) (Photo by ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty

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Trump administration open to a second round of stimulus payments | The Atlanta Voice

Congress included the first round of stimulus payments in the sweeping $2 trillion economic response to the pandemic passed in

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

African-American communities suffer from institutional racism amid COVID-19: Fauci

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Institutional racism contributes to why African-Americans have been hit harder than white groups amid the COVID-19 pandemic, White House health advisor Anthony Fauci has

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White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019, AP sources say

Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the

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Stokely Carmichael

Born: 6/29/1941 Port of Spain, Trinidad and TobagoDied: 11/15/1998 Conakry, Guinealso known as Kwame Turé, was a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he

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Julian Bond

Horace Julian Bond was a civil rights activist and politician. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 14, 1940 to Julia Agnes and Horace Mann Bond. His father was a respected professor who later became the first black president of Lincoln University and later the president of Atlanta

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#StayWoke The Eagle Newswire: Trumped In Tulsa, Statues And Images Of Oppression And Qualified Immunity | The Oklahoma Eagle

In the week before President Donald J. Trump’s kick-off rally in Tulsa, there was valid concern what the trip might mean for our

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

The beat of a culture: how HBCU bands relate to Black music legacy

READ MORE: Little Richard will be buried at Alabama HBCU he attended in the 1950s

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NBA Planning To Paint “Black Lives Matter” On Courts Once Season Resumes In Orlando

Since then, the England Premier League put Black Lives Matter on all 20 teams jerseys along with a “BLM” patch on the

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Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture

Netflix removes AIDS documentary after Haitians protest | New York Carib News

After airing the ninth episode of its History 101 documentary series, Netflix removed it after angry protests from Haitian Americans on

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Source: The New York Carib News

Rush, Bobby L. (1946- )

Bobby Lee Rush was born in Albany, Georgia on November 23, 1946. He graduated from Marshall High School in that city at the age of seventeen and soon afterwards enlisted in the United States Army. Rush served in the Army from 1963 to 1968 when he was honorably

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Trump Irked Over Black Lives Matter Mural Planned In Front Of Trump Tower

Written by Madison J. Gray

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Trump contradicts staff on testing comment

That explanation of his Saturday night rally comment comes after several White House officials asserted that the President was speaking “in jest” when he told supporters this past weekend that he had told members of the administration to slow down coronavirus

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Louis E. Lomax: Introduced the Nation of Islam & Malcolm X to the World

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Davis, Angela (1944--)

Angela Davis, activist, educator, scholar, and politician, was born on January 26, 1944, in the “Dynamite Hill” area of Birmingham, Alabama. The area received that name because so many African American homes in this middle class neighborhood had been bombed over the years by the Ku

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(2014) Rita Bender, "Thoughts for the People of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church"

On June 15, 2014, as part of the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, Rita Bender returned to Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Longdale, Mississippi to give an address commemorating the church’s role in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. In January

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Kayleigh McEnany and the Women Who Do PR for White Supremacy

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Blind Tom: The First Black Man To Perform At The White House Was Blind, Autistic, A Slave And A Musical Prodigy

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A Second Stimulus Check? Here’s How Much Money You Could Get | The Oklahoma Eagle

By now, most Americans have received the federal stimulus checks directed by the CARES Act in March to help consumers weather the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth Marchers in D.C. Confound Predictions of Violence – Voice and Viewpoint

Black Lives Matter protesters swarmed D.C. streets—not demanding to be heard, but dancing for joy that everyone is

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OP-ED: Rep. Maxine Waters, ‘Donald Trump is More Focused on Saving Statues of Slaveholders & Confederate Generals than Protecting Americans from the Coronavirus’

Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ (CA-43) statement on Donald Trump’s negligence in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and his threats to protestors calling for the removal of statues of Confederate generals and

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White, V. Ethel Willis (1920-2003)

Theendowment named in honor of V Ethel Willis White is unusual in that the person honoredwas not a wealthy woman in the usual sense of the word. Instead V Ethel Willis White’s wealth derivedfrom her inspiration to

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Twitter labeled Trump tweets with a fact check for the first time | The Atlanta Voice

For the first time, Twitter called tweets from Donald Trump “potentially misleading” — a decision that prompted the president to accuse the social media platform of election

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

US-China feud gets nasty

Any sanctions on US companies would be a “last resort” because China “is in desperate need of foreign investment from rich countries for both economic and political

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SA coronavirus: over 100K cases, 1.3m tests, Africa's first vaccine trials

Key statistics as at June 22

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Trump tweets video with 'white power' chant, then deletes it | The Atlanta Voice

President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power,” a racist slogan associated with white

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Lying Donald Trump Says Colin Kaepernick Should Get NFL Spot “If He Deserves It” [Video]

Source: SEATTLE, WA – SEPTEMBER 25: Quarterback Colin Kaepernick #7 of the San Francisco 49ers speaks with defensive end Michael Bennett #72 of the Seattle Seahawks after the game at CenturyLink Field on September 25, 2016 in

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